This edition of Arthur Mervyn offers selections from key contemporary texts as well as excerpts from Brown's own writings on slavery, race, and the uses of history in fiction.
Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793: With Related Texts
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Author(s)Charles Brockden Brown
PublisherHackett Pub Co
ISBN / ASIN0872209229
ISBN-139780872209220
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank5,023,943
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Set during the epic Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, Charles Brockden Brown's classic gothic novel Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 connects the outbreak with the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous financial networks of Atlantic slavery.